The Maze Runner (2014)

Before you read anything about The Maze Runner or before you start watching it, it’s important to know one thing: This movie is based on a series of books and this is only the first one (the next one will be released in September). With that knowledge in the back of your mind you are mentally prepared that this film doesn’t have a real ending. Not knowing this could result in a frustrating experience. With that out of the way, what is this movie about?

Dylan O’Brien is Thomas, who at the start of the film ends up in a large forest area, inhabited by a big group of boys. He is immediately captured and put into prison, not able to remember anything. In a short period he learns about the boys, their rules and his new environment. He is told that the walls that are all around the area are part of a maze, which is mapped each and every day by the so-called runners. IN the three years that they’ve mapping it, they still have not found an exit. During the night the maze transforms and you have to make sure you don’t end up in it because chances are huge that you won’t survive. Joshua is curious and not afraid to go against the rules. Will he succeed to help everyone and escape the maze?

The feeling I immediately got with this movie was comparable to Lost. A group of boys who are all in a mysterious place, inhabited by unknown monsters, with no way out of explanation available. The movie succeeds in building that feeling and you know as little as the characters and crave for more information. It takes its time to introduce all the characters and the political situation within the group. It doesn’t take long before you start caring for Joshua, but you’ll also understand why others feel threatened by him. At the end of the movie some of your answers will be answered, but new ones are introduced as well, which hopefully will be answered in the sequel, which I’m quite looking forward to.